"Community Day Food Drive"

#PokemonGO: We did something special in the PoGo community I’m a part of and I hope to share that with you.Recently, we saw a post on a local community page about the need for food/hygiene donations at Owasso Community Resources. Then, another thought came up that we have discussed maybe getting together and having a cookout(for the past 2 years and never doing it). So we decided to have a cookout food drive and we timed it with the Squirtle Community Day.Our group of trainers were quick to act and started reaching out to people for help. We had a restaurant, Stonehorse Cafe make us gourmet hot dogs(100+). A bread company donated all of our buns. Our local Vintage Stock donated $25 gift card and Sonic gave 31 coupon cards so we could use them in a raffle drawing for all those who donated. Aldi donated 20lbs ground beef & 30lbs chicken thighs for the cookout, but we donated all of it minus 10lbs of the thighs that we ate.We had 200+ people come through and handful weren’t players. We kept the lures lit in the park during our event and into community day, 11-4pm cst. A mobile gaming company, Tulsa Game Truck donated their services for the majority of the time we were there and let me tell you it was awesome!In the end, it was a huge success. We didn’t expect the results we ended up with. We knew it would be fun, we knew it would do good for our community, but what I just found out today is that we collected 1500 items and the food pantry valued it at $2600!Thanks for taking your time to read this. I hope that we will do more in the future and I hope to see other PoGo communities out there maybe doing something similar. Community Day Food Drive via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/2L3XvJu